Suhas Palshikar is Director of Lokniti and Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Pune. He taught at a degree college from 1978 to 1989, before joining the Dept of Politics and Public Administration, University of Pune. He has been teaching courses on Political Sociology, Indian Politics, Party System in India, Political Economy of India and Political Process in Maharashtra.

He has served as Associate Director on the ICSSR project on the Sixth Lok Sabha Elections in Maharashtra from 1980-81. His research projects have included 'Politics of Marginalized Groups: A Study of Aurangabad and Ahmednagar districts' - a UGC granted project completed in 2000 and another UGC major research project, Electoral Democracy and structures of Domination: A Study of Assembly Elections in Maharashtra-2009, (May 2009- April 2011). In the year 1999-2000 Professor Palshikar and the Dept. of Politics and Public Administration, University of Pune conducted a survey of around 7000 households for a project on Pune titled 'Pune: From City to Metropolis', under the Special Assistance Programme. Professor Palshikar has been associated with the CSDS since 1995. He has assisted in the study of the Assembly Elections in Maharashtra in 1995 and has served as the State coordinator for Maharashtra in the National Election Studies in 1996, 1998 and 1999 organised by Lokniti. He was also the Joint coordinator in the State of Democracy in the State of Democracy in South Asia (SDSA) project conducted by Lokniti. As Chief Advisor ( Political Science) along with Yogendra Yadav, he worked on the project of bringing out the class IX to XII political science text books for the NCERT.

Research interests:
Professor Palshikar works mainly on Political Processes in India and Politics of Maharashtra. He is presently engaged in researching Coalition Politics in Maharashtra, as part of the project by UPIASI, Delhi, 2004-05.

	Limits of Dominant Caste Politics, Seminar, 620, April, 2011; pp. 47-50.
	Transitions, Stagnations and Transformations, ( with Yogendra Yadav), Seminar, 620, April, 2011; pp. 14-20.
	Maharashtra Polls—Continuity amidst Social Volatility (with Rajeshwari Deshpande and Nitin Birmal), 2009, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 44, No. 48, 28 Nov; pp. 22-27.
	Between Fortuna and Virtu: Explaining the Congress’ Ambiguous Victory in 2009, (with Yogendra Yadav) 2009, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 44, No. 39, 25 September, pp. 33-46
	Principal State Level Contests and Derivative National Choices: Electoral Trends in 2004- 09; 2009, with Yogendra Yadav, Economic and Political Weekly, February 7-13, Vol. 44, No.6; pp. 55-62
	Ten Theses on State Politics in India, (with Yogendra Yadav), 2008, Seminar, 591, November; pp. 14-22
	Occupational Mobility: How much Does Caste matter? (co-author with Rajeshwari Deshpande), 2008, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XLIII, No. 34, August, 23; pp. 61-70.
	Challenges before the Reservation Discourse, Commentary, 2008, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XLIII, No. 17, April 26; pp. 8-11.
	Of Democracy and Diversity, 2008, Seminar, January, No. 581, pp. 83-87
	Surveying South Asia, 2008, DeSouza Peter R., Suhas Palshikar and Yogendra Yadav, Journal of Democracy, Vol. 19, No. 1, January, pp. 84-95
	Dalit Politics in the Nineties: Electoral Politics and Predicament before an Underprivileged Community; 2007; Indian Journal of Social Work, Vol. 68, No. 1, January, pp.101-129.
	Majoritarian Middle Ground?, 2004, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 39, no. 51, December, 18, pp. 5426-5430
	Participatory Norm: How Broad-based is it? (With Sanjay Kumar), 2004, Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 39, no. 51, December, 18, pp.5412-17.
	Revisiting State Level Parties, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.34, Nos. 14 &15, 2004, pp.1477-79.
	Shiv Sena: Tiger with Many Faces?, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 34, Nos. 14 &15, 2004, pp.1497-1507.
	From Hegemony to Convergence: Party System and Electoral Politics in the Indian States, 1952-2002, (Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar in Journal of Indian School of Political Economy, Vol. 15, Nos. 1 & 2, 2003, pp.5-44
	Challenges Before the Congress System, (co-authored with Rajeshwari Deshpande), in Journal of Indian School of Political Economy,Vol. 15, Nos. 1 & 2, 2003, pp. 97-122
	Triangular Competition and Bipolar Politics in Maharashtra, Economic and Political Weekly, March 30- April 5, 2002, pp.1273-1280.

	Political Economy of Humiliation: Tale of a Failed Strike, 2009, in Gopal Guru (ed.), 2009, Humiliation: Claims and Context, New Delhi, OUP, pp 163-78.
	The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side…: Are we Becoming a Majoritarian Society? 2009, in Basrur Rajesh (ed.) Challenges to Democracy in India, New Delhi, OUP; pp. 248-270.
	Maharashtra: Dalit Politics in Hindutva Trap, in Teltumbde Anand (ed.) 2005, Hindutva and Dalits, Samya, Kolkata, pp.208-223.
	Caste Politics Through the Prism of Region, in Vora Rajendra and Anne Feldhaus (eds.), 2006, Region, Culture and Politics in India, Manohar, New Delhi, pp. 271-98.
	An Enterprise called Faith? Tale of a Devsthan in Maharashtra, 2008, Marga: Ways of Liberation, Empowerment and Social Change in Maharashtra, (eds.) Naito M., I. Shima and H. Kotani, New Delhi, Manohar, pp. 357-382, (Co-author: Rajeshwari Deshpande)
	The Indian State: Constitution and Beyond, in Rajeev Bhargava (ed.), Politics and Ethics of the Indian Constitution, 2008, New Delhi, OUP, pp. 143-163.
	Whose Democracy Are We Talking About? Hegemony and Democracy in India, in Rajendra Vora and Suhas Palshikar (eds.), Indian Democracy: Meanings and Practices, Sage, New Delhi, 2004, pp.127-164.
	The Regional Parties and Democracy: Romantic Rendezvous or Localized Legitimation? In Ajay K. `Mehra, D.D. Khanna and Gert W. Kueck (eds.), Political Parties and Party Systems, 2003, New Delhi, Sage.
	Maharashtra: Fragmented Marathas Retain Power, first author, in Paul Wallace and Ramashray Roy (Eds.), India's 1999 Elections and 20th Century Poltics, New Delhi, 2003, Sage.
	Politics of India's Middle Classes, in Imtiaz Ahmad and Helmut Reifeld (Eds.), Middle Class Values in India and Western Europe, New Delhi, 2003, Social Science Press.
	Politics of Locality, Community and Marginalization, (Rajendra Vora and Suhas Palswhiakr) in Sujata Patel and Jim Masselos (Eds.) Bombay and Mumbai: The City in Transition, Delhi, 2003, OUP.
	Gandhi and Modernity, in S.N. Datye (ed.), Rethinking Mahatma Gandhi, Delhi, 2000, Kalinga; pp.165-176.

	Samkalin Bharatiya Rajkaran (Marathi), Pratima Prakashan, Pune, 2004
Edited Books
	Bharatatil Pradeshik Pakshanche Rajkaran, 2009, (ed.), Pune, Sadhana
	Maharashtratil Sattasangharsh, 2007, (Edited with Suhas Kulkarni), Pune, Samakaaleen Prakashan
	Indian Democracy: Meanings and Practices, Sage, New Delhi, 2004 (co-edited with Rajendra Vora)
	Maharashtrache Rajakaran (Marathi), Pratima Prakashan, Pune, 2004, (co-edited with Nitin Birmal)
Monographs, Reports and Occasional Papers
	Federalism in India: Institutional Framework and the Political Context, in Continuing Dialogues towards Constitutional Reforms in Indonesia, Report of a conference held in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 2001, International IDEA, 2002, Stockholm.